Posted on 11/07/2017 8:49:49 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The key to healthy high schoolers might be where no one was looking: the bedroom! In last year's report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), officials made it clear that teaching kids to save sex for marriage might just spare them from a long list of other health risks. Students in grades 9-12 who made positive decisions about sex were just as likely (or more!) to avoid other dangerous behaviors.
That's great news for parents, who were thrilled with the government's announcement that more kids were postponing intimacy than ever before. For years, moms and dads of both parties have pushed for a conservative approach to sex ed. Now, with sexually transmitted diseases through the roof, you'd think there wouldn't be any objections to teaching kids how to protect themselves. Wrong. Liberals, who hate when healthy decision-making gets in the way of sexual promiscuity, are pitching a fit about the House's decision to spend money on the only approach with 100-percent success rate: abstinence.
The anti-science party is outraged that Republicans would let research, parents, and common sense dictate how they approach sex ed. But fortunately, leaders like the House's Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) aren't ruffled. They know that the Championing Healthy Kids Act, which would pump money into state block grants that fund sexual risk avoidance (SRA) programs, is the best decision for America's young people.
"The continuation of this funding allows over one million students across the country to receive the information and skills they need to avoid sexual risk while being empowered to realize their future goals and dreams," said one of the country's biggest proponents of SRA, Ascend. The group, which used to be led by now-HHS heavyweight Valerie Huber, was thrilled that this bill "recognizes and supports growing consensus among parents, schools, legislators, and medical professionals that our youth need and deserve an approach to sex education that helps them achieve optimal health." That's quite a change from the last administration, whose own agencies admitted that Obama's programs left 80 percent of students worse off or no different than their peers.
Just as encouraging, the Trump administration is taking the abortion, STD, and teen pregnancy problems of this country seriously, deciding to move forward with a $10 million dollar study on what works in sex ed. In conjunction with HHS's Administration for Children and Families, the government will be asking questions like "how delaying sex can affect a teen economically, how social media can help influence teen decision-making, and how teens who have engaged in 'risky behaviors' can make 'healthier choices in the future.'" They'll also try to get to the bottom of why teen pregnancies are dropping while STDs are skyrocketing. It's a huge shift from the mentality of the Obama years -- one that our young people desperately need and, as many surveys show, want.
Tony Perkins' Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.
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gonna gain wait with this program- good for them- hopefully more and more kids will abstain until marriage-
Gee, that's a tough one. No wonder the gubmint rocket scientists can't figure it out.
They have implanted hormonal birth control in every (an awful lot, anyway) female teenager in the country, so the teenage pregnancy issue is now diminished. This would also logically lead to an increase in promiscuity and a decrease in condom use for these folks.
Teenagers are not capable of understanding that promiscuity is still a bad idea even when they can't get/cause pregnancy. They need this explained to them, and it isn't happening.
I can tell you the exact cause of my 16 yr old grandson being 270 lbs at 5’2” VIDEO GAMES, TV, AND HIGH CARB JUNK FOOD DIET! WE DON’T KNOW WHAT A ACTIVITY THAT WILL BURN CALORIES IS! NOW he wants a CAR to be even more lazy. He eats, sleeps, goes to school, then hits the XBox, doesn’t move until he’s thirsty or wants food every 2 hrs.
Diet is actually most of the battle for the mostly-sedentary, to the tune of 80 to 90 percent. He mostly needs to eat different foods, in addition to exercise. Nerd Fitness has numerous recipes and suggestions to alter his diet.
Teenage girls, especially. The sex hormone oxytocin causes young women to bond especially tightly to their sexual partners, so that when the partners decide to move on, there can be a great deal of emotional upheaval and depression.
He isn’t going to change his diet. I’ve harped enough about it. Told his dad to run his Blood Sugar in the AM when he runs his. I’d bet you a dime his BS is in the 300 or more and that is not having eaten anything after 12 pm. No one listens to me. Another reason my grandson avoids visiting, I make him do chores.
Now he’s harping for me to sell him my car so he doesn’t have to walk 6 blocks to school. It is a second car, I use when hubby and I have conflicting schedules or a quick trip to the grocery store. Don’t think I put 300 miles on it in a year. WALK...I did.
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